Defendant, appearing "specially", moves to vacate the service of the summons upon it because of supposed irregularities in its contents and mode of service.
Except for the possible sanction of a $25 fine (Code Crim. Pro., § 150), a criminal summons may be disregarded by an individual defendant for, unlike a civil summons, its service does not confer jurisdiction over his person (People v. Levins, 152 Misc. 650...
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